Jaclyn Wright
Jaclyn Wright is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Salt Lake City, UT. Her work incorporates archival images, in-camera collages using a large format view camera, performance, and photographic installations. Wright's work critically explores the culture of land use, the legacies of settler colonialism, and late capitalism in the American West. With the awarded film, Wright will expand her project High Visibility (Blaze Orange) building on the work's site specificity of Utah's West Desert to include Utah's Sentinel Landscape, which incorporates part of the Great Salt Lake and four military installations, spanning 2.7 million acres. She is interested in the relationships between the various agencies managing the Sentinel Landscape, specifically the Department of the Interior and the Department of Defense. Together, these agencies aim to address "challenges and align interests to maximize resources, build resilience in Utah's military installations, communities, and ecosystems…" for the future. Wright's work will examine the troublesome implications of pursuing resource maximization within the framework of military infrastructure.
